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How do you cope with autism? (lemmus.org)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Embracing it, leaning-into it:

I'm not going to want to be socializing, and if solitude/isolation is the only way I can ever be happy, then why not accept that?

I'm not attacking me for not-being-like-acceptable-people, anymore.

I'm the way I am, & that's fine with me.

You want people who compromise their integrity for social-acceptability??

Get other people, not me.

Despise me honestly, instead of "liking" me for my rotted-complaisance, which I'm eradicating from me, but "acceptable" people can't afford to compromise.

Honesty/integrity is worth more than being "liked", to me, now.

Isolation isn't bad, actually..

It takes a few years to deprogram all the social-codependency-programming, but it's entirely doable.

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